Women’s Day: Famous Quotes

by David Miller ·
Published March 4, 2015
· Updated April 27, 2015

International Women’s Day is a day celebrated all over the world. This is a special day when women are recognized for the achievements they have made without regarding language, ethnic, national, economic or cultural divisions. This is an occasion for reflecting on past accomplishments and struggles. It’s, more importantly, a day for looking forward to the latent potential and opportunities waiting future generation of women. The United Nations began celebrating the day on 8 March during International Women’s Year in 1975. In December 1977, the General Assembly passed a resolution proclaiming a UN Day for Women Rights. The Day emerged first from activities of labor movements at the beginning of twentieth century across Europe and North America. Over ears, UN has promoted women participation as equal partners with men to achieve sustainable peace, development, security and basic human rights. Read on and select and share the best quote for this Women’s Day.

A woman should be an illusion. – By Ian Fleming

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. – By Samuel Richardson, Writer

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue. – By Hermione Gingold

A woman’s hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. – By George Eliot

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. – By Virginia Woolf

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government. – By Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – By Joseph Conrad

Heaven hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. – By William Congreve, English Playwright

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. – By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against – By unmarried men are not. – By Dinah Shore

I hate women because they always know where things are. – By Voltaire

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. – By Faith Whittlesey

I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. – By Ogden Nash

I know what every colored woman in this country is doing. Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they are dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world. – By Toni Morrison, Author, Sula

I love women. They’re the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that’s fine. – By Mel Gibson

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. – By Rebecca West, The Clarion

Famous Quotes About Women

I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we’re subjected monthly. Maybe that’s why men declare war – By- By because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis. – By Brett Butler

I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason. – By Stanley Baldwin

I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships. – By Gilda Radner

If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? – By Linda Ellerbee

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other – By Mother Teresa

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. – By Aristotle Onassis

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. – By Margaret Thatcher, British Politician

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a sub- humanly ugly mate? – By Germaine Greer, Academician, The Female Eunuch

Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. – By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Writer

Men who treat women as helpless and charming playthings, deserve women who treat men as delightful and generous bank accounts – By unknown

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us. – By Christabel Pankhurst

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – By Eleanor Roosevelt

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls. Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? – By Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. – By Katherine Hepburn

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well! – By Barbara Bush

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. – By Roseanne Barr

A lot of guys think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent she is. I don’t think it works like that. I think it’s the opposite. I think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent the men become. – By Anita Wise

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing and then they marry him – By Cher

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. – By Stephen Stills

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. – By Oliver Goldsmith

Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. – By Robert Brault

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home. – By Rosalyn Sussman

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. – By Mary McLeod Bethune

When women go wrong, men go right after them. – By Mae West

Women are leaders everywhere you look – By- By from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. – By Nancy Pelosi

Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. – By Mignon McLaughlin

Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them. – By Philip Moeller

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. – By Mary Wollstonecraft

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. – By Virginia Woolf

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. – By Germaine Greer

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – By Timothy Leary

You have to have the kind of body that doesn’t need a girdle in order to get to pose in one. – By Carolyn Kenmore